Chapter 4: Drawing the Flatbread
In the market economy, at the beginning of the birth of any new occupation, as long as it can meet market demand, it will definitely have an economic dividend period exclusive to this occupation. This is the gift that the first person who takes the lead deserves.
Yangzhou is a big city, a big city that has hundreds of thousands of people, developed water transportation and prosperous economy. Yangzhou has unique geographical conditions because it is located on Huainan East Road and is a hometown of fish and rice in Jiangnan.
In Suzhou, not far from Yangzhou, "Any acre of thirty thousand hectares of farmland is thirty thousand hectares, with an annual output of seven million stones". What a terrible number. One stone made in Song is thirteen kilograms heavier than one stone made in Ming Dynasty. The number of seven million stones is equivalent to the eight hundred and twenty thousand stones in the Ming Dynasty.
How rich was the Zhao Song Dynasty?
According to the records in the "Commentary on Border Affairs by the Imperial Edict" in the Northern Song Dynasty, infantry consumed two liters of grain per day and four liters of cavalry. Zhao Er's 150,000 Northern Expedition Army consumed about two thousand stones per day.
Suzhou, which produces an annual output of 7 million stones, even if it is recorded according to the ten taxes set by the Agricultural Government Officials of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is enough to have 700,000 stones, which is enough to maintain 150,000 horse and infantry troops for a year.
In fact, although the agricultural government taxes set by the Northern Song Dynasty officials were only ten taxes, they also had various extra taxes such as the roads created by Zhao Er, rat and bird consumption introduced by local governments. In order to provide disaster relief, the central government set up charity warehouses with various prefectures and prefectures, and added another agricultural tax of charity warehouses. They also robbed grain from the bowls of ordinary people, plus charity labor and ban fees, which can be said to be a huge increase in charity taxes.
With such a prosperous and developed social environment, coupled with the relaxed commercial and political affairs of the Zhao family's court, although no one would propose the term market economy in this time and space, and there was no industrialization, the development of the private economy has already had the shadow of the market economy.
Or a liberalized market economy.
This discovery made Luo Yongsheng full of fighting spirit. He firmly believed that the manure collection business he wanted to do would be gifted and tasted the economic dividends under free business.
However, even though he was full of confidence, Luo Yongsheng did not hurry and started to do it, but took Luo Yongjie to find the old beggar first.
Luo Yongsheng is not familiar with this Yangzhou City. If you want to do your job well in Yangzhou City, you need information from the old beggar to guide you.
"You want to get someone in the water? Can this happen?"
The old beggar's surname is Li, and no one cares about his name. No one has called him for decades, and the old beggar himself forgot what his name is, so Luo Yongsheng called him Old Man Li.
The old man was not as disgusted as Luo Yongsheng's idea as Luo Yongjie. He was unwilling to do so because of his laziness.
I work a day and eat three days a day, and this will be the case in my life.
Old Man Li is too lazy to dream of being rich and noble.
"Yes, I have thought about this carefully and have made great achievements."
Luo Yongsheng nodded: "There is no special person in Yangzhou City to do this business. The people will pour the chamber pots into the big buckets at home every day. If they store too many, they will pick out the city to apply the land as fertilizer at one time. And wealthy people like Wu Yuanwai have been stationed for several months, and they will clean them at one time, and put them in several large trucks to sell them to farms or landlords outside the city.
Now we do it, collect or clean it from house to house every day, and transport it out of the city to sell it for money. It would be a lot of money to travel a few times a day."
Old Man Li doesn’t care much about whether he can make money or how much money he can make. What he cares more about is the words in Luo Yongsheng’s words to make a cart.
If you get out of the water, have to invest in a cart?
Old Man Li shook his head, saying that he was not willing to do anything, but how could he be Luo Yongsheng's opponent?
"Uncle Li, I found you because you have supported me. If you talk to any outsider, it is not our turn to do this."
Can someone rush to do such a scattered matter?
Old Li sneered a little, but he couldn't question it first, and Luo Yongsheng's words were followed.
"I walked from the northwest of the city to find you today. I walked a little more than an hour, crossed seven streets, totaling 2,439 households, 38 restaurants and 57 inns."
After throwing out this data, no matter what Luo Yongsheng wants to explain, this detailed report alone will scare Mr. Li.
"It is not embarrassing to go into the water, and it is even less embarrassing to sell money by stooling and drowning. It is embarrassing to have no money. Yangzhou is a big city, with tens of thousands of people in the northwest corner of the city alone. The richest places and the most crowded places in Yangzhou are in the east and south. One Yangzhou has hundreds of thousands of people. What is so many people pulling out? Is it shit? That's all money."
Luo Yongsheng drew a big cake: "When I came this morning, I found a tenant from the north of the city and asked, their farmhouse collected this thing, and gave eight cents a bucket, and six barrels a truck to make for forty-eight cents. We ran three times a day to make for one hundred and forty-four cents.
Six or seven days of work, it’s a whole lot of money. The girl in the flower shop may not be able to use the money for one night.”
The old beggar who can impress Old Man Li, besides money, is the only woman he has never met in his life.
People have desires, but some people are used to being useless and dare not have desires anymore, for fear of showing it to make people laugh.
The more you are a person with this temperament, once you throw a piece of cake for him and make him feel that his desires can be touched in the near future, such people are often more likely to lose their minds to judge whether something is feasible or not, and they are more likely to be deceived.
Luo Yongsheng didn't mention whether it was easy to do or not, nor would he tell Old Man Li how to do it well. He was only responsible for drawing cakes. He drew one and hung it in front of Old Man Li. The big cake that could be eaten with a little footstep was enough.
Just talking about how high the return, how big the profit, and how beautiful the future life will be, it is considered success to stimulate Old Man Li's desire.
Before coming to this time and space, Luo Yongsheng was a famous master of success.
Such nonsense as "understand the applause", "one yuan, one chicken", "I will give him one million on the spot" such as those who betray me" cannot be put on the table by Luo Yongsheng. He is not all cheating, and there are also a large number of high-ranking officials and nobles!
Whoever says that officials and businessmen will not be deceived? Compared with ordinary people, officials and businessmen are more likely to be deceived because their own desires are far stronger than ordinary people.
But Luo Yongsheng doesn’t like the title of Master of Success, he prefers to call himself a speculative broker.
A person who wanders in the circle of all walks of life and classes and uses other people's power to make profits for himself.
I eat brain and mouth rice.
Obviously, at this moment, Old Man Li was not in the mood to think about how much money he could earn by following Luo Yongsheng for this job. His mind was full of the graceful figure of the flower shop girl, and how he transformed himself into a master, hugging Meiji and holding her arms and holding her cups.
As for the later plot, his imagination is lacking.
“Is it feasible?”
"feasible."
At this time, Old Man Li's response was straightforward and tight, and his head was like pounding garlic.
Luo Yongsheng smiled with satisfaction: "How many beggars are there in Yangzhou City? Uncle Li, you are in the capital, please help me find a few. If Yongjie is not old, the more honest and obedient the better."
"Where do you get the cart and the wooden barrel that contains manure?" It can be seen that Old Man Li has now begun to become anxious and is eager to start work and make money.
"I'll find a carpenter to make it. I'll find a way to do it."
Luo Yongsheng leniently said to Mr. Li: "When I came, there were people who built houses on the way. I'll go and see if I can get a job to fight against Yuan Limu. I'll earn some wages in the past few days. Uncle Li, please hurry up and help me find someone."
"become."
The two of them decided on this matter, and Old Man Li left excitedly, not even the broken bowl he usually carried with him for begging.
"He no longer treats himself as a beggar."
Luo Yongsheng looked at the back of Old Man Li and said to Luo Yongjie beside him: "In his mind, he outlined an illusory dream for his future that you and I don't know. In that dream, he is a junior, a wealthy businessman, a landlord, and only a beggar."
He stretched out his feet and stomped the begging bowl left by Old Man Li. Looking at the fragments all over the ground, Luo Yongsheng turned around.
Chapter completed!